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Barbary fig

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noun

  1. prickly pear.

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At last even the palms were gone, and the Barbary fig displayed no longer among the crumbling boulders its tortured strength, and the pale and fantastic evolutions of its unnatural foliage.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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